Turkey urges China to stop ‘assimilation’ of Uighurs
ANKARA (AFP) – Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged China to stop the “assimilation” of its
Uighur minority Saturday, the day after he said the unrest in Xinjiang was “like a genocide.”
“We ask the government of China to abandon assimilation, because such assimilation can do you no…
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